New on Blu-ray: SALESMAN (1969) - Documentary - Criterion Collection

Product Description: This radically influential portrait of American dreams and disillusionment from Direct Cinema pioneers David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin captures, with indelible humanity, the worlds of four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen as they travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics. A vivid evocation of midcentury malaise rendered against a succession of cheap motels, smoky diners, and suburban living rooms, Salesman assumes poignant dimensions as it uncovers the way its subjects’ fast-talking bravado masks frustration, disappointment, and despair. Revolutionizing the art of nonfiction storytelling with its nonjudgmental, observational style, this landmark documentary is one of the most penetrating films ever made about how deeply embedded consumerism is in America’s sense of its own values.

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Director: David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Charlotte Mitchell Zwerin, Albert Maysles

Starring: James Baker, Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, U. S. Baker James

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Runtime: 91 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: March 10, 2020

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Region: Region A/1

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New, restored 4K digital transfer, undertaken by the Academy Film Archive, The Film Foundation, and the George Lucas Family Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
New appreciation of the film by actor Bill Hader
“Globesman,” a 2016 episode of the television series Documentary Now! that parodies the film, starring Hader and Fred Armisen
elevision interview from 1968 with directors David and Albert Maysles, conducted by critic Jack Kroll
Audio excerpt from a 2000 episode of NPR’s Weekend Edition profiling James Baker, one of the salesmen featured in the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Chaiken